Pamela B. Liebman is president and chief executive of the Corcoran Group, the New York City residential real estate brokerage firm.

Liebman was born in 1962 and grew up on Staten Island. She joined the Corcoran Group in 1985, when she was in her early 20s and rose through the ranks, making partner in 1990 and being selected to head the company in 2000.

She led the negotiations that resulted in the purchase of the Corcoran Group by NRT, the largest real estate brokerage in the country. She also oversaw Corcorans acquisition of brokerages in Palm Beach and the Hamptons, of Citi Habitats, and the merger of the Sunshine Group and Corcoran Group Marketing that created new development brokerage Corcoran Sunshine.

She graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Liebman lives in New Jersey with her husband, a chiropractor, and two daughters, Tori and Dylan. She has a second home at Canyon Ranch in Miami, and a condominium at the Corcoran-marketed Element, which she keeps as a pied-à-terre.

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